The King’s Garden is a popular meeting place for Stockholmers where there is something for everyone going on all year round. This open urban space is bordered by tree-lined promenades, with a modern fountain in the middle.

At the Stromgatan end there is a square named after Karl XII with J. P. Molin’s stature of the warrior king, unveiled in 1868, at its centre. In Kungstradgarden itself there is a statue of Karl XIII by Erik Gothe. During the summer, the park is the venue for food festivals, concerts, dancing and street theatre. In winter, the skating rink attracts children and grown-ups alike. Also to be seen is Molin’s fountain, made from gypsum in 1866 and cast in bronze. It is city’s oldest park, starting as the royal kitchen garden in the fifteenth century. During Erik XIV’s reign in the sixteenth century, it was transformed into a formal Renaissance garden. Queen Kristina built a stone summer house here in the seventeenth century, which stands at Vastra Tradgardsgatan 2, by the cobblestoned Lantmateribacken.